Food-press



G. W. FERDON.

FOOD PRESS.

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and useful improvements in hooddPresses,

of which the following is a specification, ref

erence being bad therein to the accompany ing drawing.

- fly invention relates to food presses for culinary use. These are used for extracting juices from fruits, soup from stoclr, and juices from similar materials, forrnashing or ricing potatoes and for similar pur poses. lit consists in a perforated hopper or food container, and a press therefor. l have made a strong and durable press, one that has features which give it great strength to resist pressure and prevent its opening up or bursting at the seams, one which avoids loss by preventing the, escape of liquid eacept through the perforations of the con tainer, andone which has various other advantages and points of novelty as Wlll appear in the following description. I ll ly inventionrelates to several features of structure, namely, the frame-work, the hen dle, the i lunger brace, the cover strip to prevent tie escape of material at the baclr, the apex guard and other features.

in the drawing 2- Figure l is a perspective view showing my device,

l is a detail view.

2 is a sectional view.

Fig, 3 is a top plan view,

Fig. t is a section on the line of lhig.

l ig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing nay hinge cover or shield,

lln the drawing 1, represents c tainer which is of the usual. p e though preferably larger than. hitchen appliance, nay preset 5 made on a larger and strong r the demands of hotels, restaui top of the container f. The upper edge of the container is provided with lips 5 bent over the rectangular frame worlr of the rectangle at each side, and at the rear as at 5, see Figs, a and 3, and soldered in place; lit the forward end this container is provided with the pintle b 'llhis container is provided with two curved sides, as shown, giving the container a substantially ll shape. The curve of side i, ltig Q, is an arc of a cirele having the pintle '6 as its center, and the curve on the opposite side is preferably inade substantially the same for the salts of symmetry it the bottom of the container the two sides are made to reset and are there soldered, or otherwise fastened together to form an apen. its a protection for this apex, l have the guard 8, which extends across the apes. and partway, or if preferred all the way, up the ends 9 of the container, which ends are flat and iinperforate. Each of these ends fl is provided with flanges 10 into which the sides of the V fit, and to which they are united in any suitable way, preferably by soldering. The arms h of the guard 8 prevent the opening of the seams of the container at the sides or bottom, un-

der pressure. That is, they enable the structure to withstand all the pressure that it is likely to be subjected to.

' The guard at the bottom also serves as a protector for the apex which is subject to considerable wear. hornetirnes these implemerits are subjected to considerable force and violence as from blows struck on a bloclr or table by rapping the point of the utensil thereon in order to free it from tached pa Yes of food or otherwise. This tahe ue blow. it also acts as a stop, nail is used, it frequently it,

lar receptacle or on orrns bearing u on is directed; thereby i a against ingury and pro ll hinge upper handle piece of bat. l iron bent 3 and extended forward, in diverg ill.

arms is p i erred to, so a hinge the upper arm or member of the JL mount between the arms on h he plunger member 13 of the pr a, and .iis plunger rnenaber consists till tlll

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' 1n Fig. 2. This plunger member is of an imperforate plate shaped to register with the interior of the container, as

provided with flanges 14 on eachside to give it stiffness and an upper wider flange 13 where it is bent around the pintle, and it also has a similar stiifeningup-turned flange 13 at the lower end.-

I extend a brace 15 from the lower end of this plunger to some convenient part of the handle, which brace preferably is of the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

This brace extends across the whole face of the plunger, and consists of two parts riveted together at 16 and made divergent to engage the forks of the upper handle to which they are secured by a bolt 17, or by, any other suitable means, as by solder, or both. I unite the forward ends of the upper part or handle by means of the bar 18,

which passes through the forward ends ofthe handle at 19 and is riveted or otherwise secured thereto. This bar is made wide and is curved in cross section, as shown in Fig. 2, so that it extends over the aforesaid pintle 6 thus closing the opening or crack which exists between the plunger and the left wall of the container, so that, when pressure is applied, liquid or solids will not squirt out of said crack, but will be prevented from escaping and will be diverted back toward the receptacle. The bar 8 serves ,as a buttressing point to protect the entire container as a stop against the forward pressing movement which occurs when the device is used under hard pressure and as a brace or clamp for holding the sides together.

It should be remembered that if the con- I tainer is even slightly out of true the plunger W1l l not operate or will not go home perfectly and properly. The container in filling rests on the rotecting bar 8.

The handles an bars are preferably tinned over thickly, and the sides and ends of the receptacle are made of heavy plate in which the perforations in the sides are carried nearly, but not quite, to the top.

Having thus describedmy invention what I elaim and desire-to secure by Letters Paten 1s 1. A lever press comprising a perforated food container having plane ends and curved perforated sides, saidsides meeting at their loweredges to form a substantially ,V- shaped cross section, and a reinforcing bar secured to the a ex of the V and serving as a guard for sai apex.

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2. A lever press comprising a perforated container substantially V-shaped in cross 'and arreinforcing bar secured to the apex of said container and serving as a guard for said apex.

3. A lever press comprising a frame, a food container having plane end walls and curved perforated side walls secured to said frame, a pintle s' anning said end walls nearthe outer en thereof and parallel to said side walls, a bifurcated lever pivoted on said pintle, a plungeralso pivoted on said pintle, a brace connecting said lever and said plunger and a strip curved in cross section and secured to the outer curved wall of the food container and covering the crack between said pintle and the upper edge of the outer curved wall aforesaid.

4. A lever press comprising a frame, a food container having plane end walls and curved perforated side walls secured to said frame, forming a substantially V-shaped cross section, with a reinforcing bar secured to the apex of the V and serving as a guard therefor, a pintle spanning said end walls,

to the apex of the V and serving as a guard therefor, a pintle spanning said end walls near the outer end thereof and parallel to said side walls, a bifurcated lever pivoted on said pintle, a plunger also pivoted on said pintle, a brace connecting said lever and said plunger and a strip curved in cross section and secured to the outer curved wall of the food container and covering the crack between said pintle and the upper edge of the outer curved wall aforesaid.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

GUY W. FERDON. 

